People like to paint me in a certain way, but I’m a hugely sex-positive person and I have nothing against anyone getting naked. For me personally I just don’t think it really would complement my music in any way or help me tell a story any better. It’s not like I have a problem with dancing around in undies—I think you can use that stuff in a hugely powerful way. It just hasn’t felt necessary for me.

lorde said she was gonna release new music in 2016 and yet here, halfway through august, there is still no new album. i have descended into a lorde-gothic state. royals comes on the radio. i think about changing it every time, but i never do. i’m dancing in this world alone. i thought lorde would be here but she isn’t. i’m so tired of being told to throw my hands up in the air but i don’t know where else to throw them. so there. where is lorde. when will i be free? she said me she’d tell me what that big word means, but i am still waiting… she’s little but she’s coming for us. when lorde? when